I love students’ questions, I really do! And that’s a good thing since, during my fifteen years of teaching English and five years of presenting workshops, I’ve gotten plenty of them. Here are a few of the questions that made me think. A student in one of my workshops...

I am a northerner. My parents are Geordies, I’ve lived in Yorkshire for five years, and I hear an argument about what you call a bap/breadcake/barm just about every weekend when I go round the supermarket. I talk funny, I own more jumpers and boots than I have...

I’m no good at writing about writing. That’s a pretty bad thing for an author to say, judging by the sheer number of ‘writing about writing’ posts that there are out there from my scribble-peers. But I really suck at it. And the reason I really...

I’d like to share a childhood memory. I had just turned seven and was on vacation with my family. We’d spent a week in New England where my sister and I saw the ocean for the first time. On our drive back to Ohio, we spent a couple of days in New York City. Even as a...

Sometimes I absolutely amaze myself. I’m such a Pollyanna, I always try to make something with the lemons that life hands me…sometimes its lemonade but about six years ago I went beyond my usual expectations and ended up with lemon chiffon pie. Six years ago, I had a...

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